Re: What replaces --allowerasing in dnf5?

[Will McDonald <wmcdonald@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 at 13:16, ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 > On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 at 11:57, ToddAndMargo via users
I am confused.  When I tried using --allowerasing,
I got:

      Unknown argument "--allowerasing"

The --allowerasing allowed me to remove the older of two
rpm of the same revision but different releases

# rpm -qa systemd
systemd-254.18-1.fc39.x86_64
systemd-255.13-1.fc40.x86_64

It's the ordering of the command and how DNF is parsing it that's the problem.

Compare,  the following two commands, running in an f41 container:

> [root@94a0d274cbcb /]# dnf5 --allowerasing upgrade
> Unknown argument "--allowerasing" for command "dnf5". Add "--help" for
> more information about the arguments.

To:

> [root@94a0d274cbcb /]# dnf5 upgrade --allowerasing
> Updating and loading repositories:
> Repositories loaded.
> Nothing to do.
 

With DNF5 "--allowerasing upgrade" does not work.  "upgrade --allowerasing" does work. 

I tried to make that clear by showing both the failing scenario, and the working scenario. And making Unknown argument "--allowerasing" for command "dnf5". bold, but your mail agent might not be rendering that clearly. Basically the first form is passing --allowerasing to dnf5, the 2nd form is passing it to dnf5 upgrade and that modularity of parsing appears to me more rigid and proscriptive with DNF5.

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